Tournament Variations
Do you want a change to your weekly poker game? Some of the following options can be used as a way to change your weekly poker tournament.
Bounty Playing
Perhaps your poker tournament has been won several times in a row by the same player. If so, then consider placing a bounty (equal to the buy-in fee) on his/her head to be paid to the player who knocks off this reigning champ. The tournament organizer can raise the bounty amount by simply setting aside a portion of the entry fees charged.
Re-buys and/or Add-Ons to Extend the Tournament
If you find your tournaments are over too soon and you want your tournaments to last longer re-buys and/or add-ons can be used in your tournaments.
Re-buy options allow players to buy tournament chips after the tournament has started. This enables players to purchase more chips during play to avoiding losing them all and having to drop from the tournament. There are a few common rules on the re-buy option, such as re-buys not being allowed until a players chip total goes below a certain amount, or re-buys being allowed only before a set number of hands have been played or only allowed for a set period of time. Of course the re-buy option must end at some point or players could re-buy forever and never be eliminated. Re-buy options are seen as method of re-involving players who have lost most of their chips during early tournament play.
Add-on options are another way for players to add chips to their chip count in the early stages of the tournament. The add-on option is usually open to all the tournament players but is usually allowed only once in the tournament at some preset time.
Shootouts
To keep multi-table tournaments fair tournament organizers try to keep the numbers of players at each tournament table the same. To accomplish this tournament organizers usually move players from table to table to balance them and remove tables from play as they become empty. However there is another method of tournament play that doesn't involve moving players - the "shootout tournament". In a shootout tournament each tournament table plays as if it was a single table tournament until a table winner is determined. After every table has a table winner the individual table winners play at a final table to determine the tournament winner. In the case where your tournament starts out with eight tables, each of the eight tables play until the table produces a table winner, and then these eight table winners sit at a table and play until the tournament winner wins all the tournament chips.
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